UK government to apologize for the state's role in decades of forced adoptions
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- Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a formal government apology Thursday for decades of forced adoptions of babies born to unwed mothers.
- He said in Parliament that “we are deeply and profoundly sorry” for a what he called “stain on our history.
- UK government and Christian churches oversaw system that separated 185,000 babies from their mothers from 1949 to 1976.
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- Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a formal government apology Thursday for decades of forced adoptions of babies born to unwed mothers.
- He said in Parliament that “we are deeply and profoundly sorry” for a what he called “stain on our history.
- UK government and Christian churches oversaw system that separated 185,000 babies from their mothers from 1949 to 1976.